Access to Commercial Registers Worldwide

Bernhard Hoetzl

Founder & Co-CEO

Bernhard has more than 15 years of senior and executive management experience in start-ups, strategic planning & consulting, business development, marketing & sales and product management in international Internet & new media, telecommunication, gaming & gambling and energy markets.

He is co-founder and partner in four companies providing deep-web search, consulting, facility management and remote monitoring services to a global market.

In 2012 Bernhard, together with close friends and business partners, founded kompany, an Internet start-up with a mission to become the trusted source for official company information worldwide.

In 2006, Bernhard founded funkensprung.com, a service that is operating multiple co-working spaces in Vienna, Austria together with two partners.

Prior positions include Head of B2B Marketing at cablecom (now UPC cablecom) in Zurich, Switzerland, Head of Applications Product Management at Telefonica‘s 3G Mobile AG’s Greenfield operations in Zurich, Switzerland, Interim Head of Marketing, Sales and Customer Service for eWave (now part of A1, Telekom Austria AG – yess.at), and Senior Manager Mobile Entertainment at the mobile telecom start-up ONE (which first became Orange Austria and then Hutchison 3 Austria) in Vienna, Austria.

Bernhard enjoys coaching and training management teams and MBA students on Entrepreneurship, Internet & new media, innovation, strategy, leadership and organizational development. He has a strong interest in international travel; in the past 20 years he has lived, visited or worked in more than 40 countries on six continents. In his spare time he enjoys reading, triathlon (Ironman 2010 Finisher), ski touring, playing guitar and painting. In 2011 Bernhard was member of the Race Across Australia team setting a new world record for charity: www.austriateam.com.

bernhard.hoetzl@kompany.com

Peter Bainbridge-Clayton

Founder & CTO

Peter has spent all his working life in various IT and scientific projects after teaching himself programming on a Commodore PET at the age of 11, and digging up his parents cellar floor to create a mould for a radio telescope.

More productive pursuits followed during and after his BSc. in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Physics from St. Andrews University, in a career which has spanned designing and developing embedded control systems for bakeries, the world’s first ever implementation of a distributed java application in a manufacturing environment, the first ever implementation of SMS based content services and vending machine payment in telecommunications, the conversion of one of the first software based Telecommunications Switches to European standards, including the world’s first transatlantic SIP based telephone call, the complete re-design and implementation of the core system for Companies House, the UK’s official company registry, and several in between.

peter.bc@kompany.com

Andrew Bunce

Head of Product

Andrew brings over 15 years of User Interface and User Experience knowledge, coupled with project management skills, and is responsible for the overall design and delivery of all aspects of the kompany product and feature set.

Since graduating with a B.A. in product design, Andrew has consulted for numerous large corporations covering government, legal, telecommunications and the private sector. Whilst his main responsibilites have been towards user experience Andrew has also managed large delivery teams and was a project manager for the complete re-design and implementation of the core system for Companies House, the UK’s official company registry.

andrew.bunce@kompany.com

Johanna Konrad

Business Development and Strategy

Johanna loves the global arena and passionately drives the international growth and development of kompany and BREX.

She spent 15 years in the corporate and mobile world, working for Ericsson, Telekom Austria and the Vodafone group in senior executive roles focusing on marketing, commercial strategy and planning. Since she is an entrepreneur at heart, she eventually felt that smaller ventures would enable her to create even more value. Before joining the kompany / BREX team, she helped to start-up and grow three companies.

Johanna holds an MSc from the Vienna University of Economics and an MBA from SAID Oxford. She originally stems from Sweden, but has lived in the UK, Germany and Turkey and is settled in Austria for now.

johanna.konrad@brex.io

Richard Wakefield

Key Account Manager International

Richard heads up the direct sales division at kompany.

He studied Mathematics at Sheffield Hallam University. After his studies, Richard worked in Asset Management in London before joining the British Army, where he served in the Royal Military Police in Germany and Afghanistan with distinction. Returning to the banking world in Zurich, Richard worked in a High Net Worth Private Banking team for UBS. Upon moving to Vienna Richard ran a number of projects, most notably building from grass-roots the international headquarters of an American Due Diligence and Business Intelligence company, developing governance, repeat clients and self-sufficiency within 9 months. Richard joined kompany in September 2015.

richard.wakefield@kompany.com

Thomas Winter

Key Account Manager Germany

thomas.winter@kompany.com

Malgorzata Zblewska (Meg)

Meg brings over 5 years of project management experience, together with a strong track record of working on complex multi-year, multi-million, high visibility projects. She is a PMP-certified project manager.

Her talent to plan and coordinate, combined with her agile and hands-on work attitude enable her to enhance and contribute to the success of kompany and BREX. Meg holds a MSc form the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Speaking 4 languages Meg is originally from Poland and has lived in Germany, Slovakia and the UK, settling in Austria.

malgorzata.zblewska@brex.io

Georg Ursits

Senior Software Developer

Georg is a software developer with a strong interest in any kind of interactive media, especially web and 3D contents. He is part of the development team at kompany. In his spare time he studies Mediainformatics and Visual Computing at the Technical University in Vienna.

georg.ursits@kompany.com

Jakob Abfalter

API Developer

Jakob is part of the development team and is responsible for all tasks relating to the backend infrastructure of kompany and BREX. This includes monitoring, maintaining and on-boarding new clients to the BREX API, as well as integrating with new content providers and thereby increasing the global coverage of official and authoritative company intelligence.

Jakob also studies Software Engineering and Internet Computing at the Technical University in Vienna and is especially interested in Web Application technologies.

jakob.abfalter@brex.com

Daniela Wustinger

SEA Specialist

Daniela has over 10 years of Search Engine Advertising experience. She has worked for several agencies and companies in Germany and Austria. She specializes in developing marketing strategies and creating international campaigns in the digital field and is responsible for all kompany SEA activities.

As a true digital nomad, she also develops marketing campaigns whilst surfing in Costa Rica or another hot spot somewhere in the world once in a while.

Karin Fischer

Accounting and Controlling

Karin is our accounting and controlling guru, who keeps track of all invoicing, payments and accounts at kompany.

She has over 20 years of experience and brings structure into our sometimes a bit chaotic world.

karin.fischer@kompany.com

Claudia Prkna

Customer Service & Marketing Specialist

If you have ever contacted us, you will likely have interacted with Claudia. Write to her in English, German, Spanish, Italian, or French, and you will always get a timely, friendly and solution-oriented answer within a short time. No request goes unsolved or unanswered!

claudia.prkna@kompany.com

Julia Prkna

Customer Service & Marketing

Julia is always prepared to respond to your questions or requests in a friendly, efficient and timely way. Feel free to write to her in German, English, French, Spanish or Italian.

Due to her organisational talent, she also supports us with various back-office activities.

julia.prkna@kompany.com

Jonas Schneider

Customer Service & Marketing

Jonas is part of our customer service team and focuses on helping our customers with their Business Concierge requests.

He always knows where to find official and authoritative information - even in the most distant locations.

jonas.schneider@kompany.com

Neira Dzabija

Customer Service & Marketing

Neira is part of our customer service team and helps to answers any question you might have regarding our services.

She is happy to chat with you in German, English, Russian, Serbo-Croatian or Bosnian.

jonas.schneider@kompany.com

Velislava Stoyanova (Vava)

Customer Service & Marketing

Velislava, or Vava as we love to call her, is one of the friendly voices you may hear or get a note from, if you contact our support team.

Vava speaks English, Bulgarian, Italian and German and is happy to help you with any question you might have regarding our service.

velislava.stoyanova@kompany.com